Isaiah 1:11

one bull from the herd, one ram, one male lamb one year old, for a burnt offering;

And Samuel said, “Has Yahweh as much delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices As in obeying the voice of Yahweh? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, And to heed than the fat of rams.

Sacrifice and meal offering You have not desired; My ears You have opened; Burnt offering and sin offering You have not required.

“I do not reprove you for your sacrifices, And your burnt offerings are continually before Me.

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, But the prayer of the upright is His delight.

To do righteousness and justice Is chosen by Yahweh over sacrifice.

The expression of their faces answers against them, And they declare their sin like Sodom; They do not even conceal it. Woe to their soul! For they have dealt out evil on themselves.

“Yet they seek Me day by day and find pleasure in knowing My ways, As a nation that has done righteousness And has not forsaken the judgment of their God. They ask Me for righteous judgments; They find pleasure in the nearness of God.

“For what purpose does frankincense come to Me from Sheba And the sweet cane from a distant land? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable, And your sacrifices are not pleasing to Me.”

Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, “Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat flesh.

For I delight in lovingkindness rather than sacrifice, And in the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

“I hate, I reject your feasts, Nor do I delight in your solemn assemblies.

Then Haggai answered and said, “‘So is this people. And so is this nation before Me,’ declares Yahweh, ‘and so is every work of their hands; and what they bring near to Me there is unclean.

“Speak to all the people of the land and to the priests, saying, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months these seventy years, was it actually for Me that you fasted?